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Since then appointments to offices in the field of education have been heaped upon him, in spite of his extreme youth. Among other honors he has been made Joint Principal of the International Peoples College of Denmark, and Director of Studies in the School of International Trade...
...University of Wisconsin, Prof. Rasmus Björn Anderson, linguist, insurance man, rubber manufacturer, onetime (1885-9) U. S. Minister to Denmark, editor of Amerika (weekly), whose resolute chin is now overgrown with the white hairs of nearly 80 years, refused to accept the Cross of St. Olaf from King Haakon of Norway (his native land) just as he had refused in 1889 to accept the Cross of Danneborg from Haakon's father, King Christian, offered for his researches in Norwegian literature. Said Prof. Anderson: "Decorations and medals are humbug...
...many men employed on the soil in Great Britain, in proportion to the size of the two countries, as they have in Denmark, there would now be 750,000 more workers on the British land than are engaged at this hour. If you take Germany as a basis, there would be 1,000,000 more; if Holland then 1,750,000 more, and if Belgium 2,000,000 more? that is, if we had devoted the same care to the possibilities of the soil, as they have done in these countries, there would be no unemployment problem of any magnitude...
Towards Swampscott rushed Lucius J. M. Malnin [sic], Federal Judge of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, purchased by the U. S. from Denmark in 1917). Judge Lucius had a tale of "maladministration of the Virgin Isles" by "seven U. S. governors, all navy officers, in seven years," to unfold to President Coolidge. He was told by Secretary Sanders, at Lynn, to hold his peace until the President should return to Washington. Then and there an interview will be accorded...
...Towards Swampscott rushed Lucius J. M. Malnin, Federal Judge of the Virgin Islands (St. Croix, St. John and St. Thomas, purchased by the U.S. from Denmark in 1917). Judge Lucius had a tale of "maladministration of the Virgin Isles" by "seven U. S. Governors, all navy officers, in seven years," to unfold to President Coolidge. He was told by Secretary Sanders, at Lynn, to hold his peace until the President should return to Washington. Then and there an interview will be accorded him. Said Judge Malnin...